Tag Archives: Henry Porter

Morning roundup, Thursday 12th March 2009

12Mar09 – 10:17

Child protection services aren't up to scratch, claims Lord Laming. Still, over-worked social workers make such lovely media scapegoats to the extent that when some murderous scroate kills his/her toddler, the media only vaguely hint at the perpetrators' guilt, leaving everyone with the distinct impression that children's services operate a Pied Piper policy on protecting our young. Of course, laws could be passed to make information sharing on vulnerable kids easier and help social workers do a difficult job in slightly easier circumstances, but then the Porter-warriors in the commuter belt would screech something about Nazi Germany until the plaintive cries of those with a proper job involving protecting children are totally drowned out in a slurry of Chakrabarti bullshit. Rant over;

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Morning roundup, Wednesday 4th March 2009

04Mar09 – 09:41

On the fourth day of March, my true love gave to me: a bunch of Tories a-leaking spinning, Jon "I have only one tone of voice - APPALLED OUTRAGE!" Craig a-butt kissing, and a Conservative MP with surprisingly progressive views on state-provided childcare when it relates soley and exclusively to Conservative MPs. Anyone fancy working on a musical score? More on this later.

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Morning roundup, Monday 2nd March 2009

02Mar09 – 09:12

HSBC, the bank at which your correspondent's overdraft is stabled, asks for shareholder bailout of £12.5bn.

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Why did the Times remove Phillip Pullman’s article?

01Mar09 – 20:37

Apparently, an article on Liberty by Phillip Pullman was removed mysteriously from the Times website. Some seem to suspect some kind of sinister motive? I reckon that's very much the case, for there are some things that mankind was not meant to know. In this case it's the truly terrifying knowledge that there exist writings [...]

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No, I’M Henry Porter … And So Is My Wife

19Feb09 – 18:44

Henry's glorious day draws ever nearer.

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Irregular Verb of the Day brought to you by the Convention on Modern Liberty

18Feb09 – 11:24

I am Henry Porter*

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Refugees flock to Guardian’s Liberty Central

15Feb09 – 16:16

Thousands of persecuted contributors to the Guardian's Comment Is Free have set up a make-shift refugee camp outside the newspaper's offices in north London. Sheltering in tents and impromptu wooden structures at the camp known as 'Liberty Central,' the refugees are seeking out a mysterious prophet known to some as Po' Rterhe Nry and to [...]

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Morning roundup, Thursday 12th February 2009

12Feb09 – 10:40

Wikigate continues as the Conservative party unleash an army of bag-carriers onto teh internetz in an untimately doomed attempt to prevent their leader looking like a berk. Ah, the twenty-first century. In a few years the phrase "history is written by CCHQ internet weirds" will pass into common parlance;
No police investigation in the "cash-for-amendments" farago. [...]

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